In The Mood For Love - Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung neon
In The Mood For Love - Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung neon
In the Mood for Love (2000) Janus Films

ACMI presents

In the Mood for Love

花樣年華

Wong Kar Wai | Hong Kong | 2000 | G
Film

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$18

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$14

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$12

When

Sun 24 Jul 2022

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Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai star in Wong Kar Wai’s most beloved film, beautifully restored for its 20th anniversary.

The most gorgeously aching neon fever dream in cinema history.

Hollywood Reporter

Released in 2000, In the Mood for Love heralded a promising new century of cinema and what a promise the film made. Film Comment noted it was "as intoxicating, as exquisitely nuanced, and as luxuriously sad as movies get". Set in 1960s Hong Kong, Mrs Chan (Maggie Cheung) and Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) are neighbours drawn together through a shared heartache – their respective spouses are having an affair. But living within the noisy and nosy walls of a cramped rooming house, they must hide their blossoming friendship – and possibly their love.

The exquisitely crafted on-screen world is born of memory for Wong: “it’s about the memory of my childhood, an era, a Hong Kong that’s been lost.” Expertly realised by two of contemporary cinema’s most accomplished cinematographers, Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-bin (best known for his work with Taiwanese director, Hou Hsiao-hsien), In the Mood for Love contains some of contemporary cinema’s most iconic images; Maggie Cheung gliding up the stairs in one of her many beautiful cheongsam dresses; Leung with his slicked hair, sharp suit and sad eyes savouring their fleeting glance. Winner of the Best Actor (Tony Leung Chiu-wai,) and the Technical Grand Prize at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, In the Mood for Love remains an essential film for fans and hopeless romantics alike.

– Kristy Matheson, Director of Film Programs

This 4K digital restoration was undertaken from the 35 mm original camera negative by the Criterion Collection in collaboration with L’Immagine Ritrovata and Jet Tone. It was supervised and approved by Wong Kar Wai.

Format: DCP
Language: In Cantonese and Shanghainese with English subtitles
Source: Janus Films
Courtesy: Janus Films
Runtime: 99 min

Event duration

99 mins

Rating

G

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